The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 26, 1986 Page: 1 of 14
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A scene in front of the C.W. Hines residence at 800 N Circle Drive in southwest Seminole
reveals a Thanksgiving portrait. Hines said that he put the scene up because Thanksgiving
is one of the more traditional holidays, a time to slow down to be with family and friends,
and to give thanks for what we have The materials for the scene were given to Hines and
some of the material came from his farm His daughters provided most of the wildlife
statuary Hines also plans to possibly put up a Christmas scene in December
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The Gaines County
commissioners took no
immediate action after an
executive session following a
meeting with both the Seagraves
Clinic board and a doctor
employed there. Brady Fleming
The commissioners heard lx>th
Fleming and the board give their
sides of the clinic issue for an
hour-and a half before retiring
into an executive session
The series of events lx*fore the
commissioners began last week
when Fleming appeared before
the commissioners alone to
address the problem of the clinic
and give the commissioners
several pnqxisals to remedx the
situation
Fleming said he had been
harassed by the board, and not
allowed to practice medicine the
way he thought it should f>e
Fleming, given the floor at the
beginning of the meeting, said he
was just there to see what
decision the commissioners had
come to regarding the solutions
he had made
In his remarks, Fleming said
the clinic board, which oversees
the clinic and is m turn overseen
by the commissioners, had
allowed the clinic to turn into “a
mess
“It was not a mess when
(county commissioneri Travis
< Bagley > was in charge.” said
Fleming, who repeated later in
tin* meeting his request to have
the board disbanded and have
Bagley to oversee the clinic
"I'm not trying to battle
anyone.” said Fleming, adding
that the board was cutting the
towns of Seagraves and Ixx>p 'to
ribbons'."
Fleming, who repeated his
three solutions to the
commissioners, also asked ilial
Addison and vice-chairman Ray-
Young. why they were adding
another doctor, the recently
hired Frtc lleng. to help w ith the
patient load and at the same time
terminating her because there
wasn't enough business to justify
keeping her on as bookkeeper
Young and Addison noted the
txiard had hired lleng to take
care of the times that Fleming
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the board reinstate terminated
clinic txxikkeeper Carla Hicks,
w hom the board said they let go
to help cut down on expenses and
keep with the commissioners'
request to cut back on budget
requests The budget cutting
requests were made to all county
departments in the wake of
falling oil prices and revenues.
Hicks appeared at the meeting
and asked the board
representatives, chairman Carol
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Watching a football game is
really a treat to us. Well, not just
football, but any type of sporting
event
For years w e sat in press boxes
and on bleachers and such and
duly recorded on paper the
happenings on the fields and
courts And. we don't care what
anyone says, you cant
thoroughly enjoy an athletic
contest w hen you're so engrossed
in who did what, when, for how
much, at what time and then jot
all that dow n on a piece of paper
or chart and then expect to really
enjoy the event
When the young 'un started
playing basketball years back,
we got to enjoy some portions of
the game, and the same applied
when he started playing football
back in the seventh grade
However, when you are so
engrossed in watching your own
child's performance, it is still
something akin to missing the
real ebb and flow of the contest
Well, this past weekend we had
the opportunity to make a trip to
FI Paso and see Bel Aire and San
There was good news on the
job front in Gaines County during
October.
There are serious storm clouds
on the horizon, however,
threatening to negate the
employment gains in the county,
according to John Rodriguez of
the Texas Employment
Commission office in Lamesa.
The jobless rate in the county
dropped a point during the
month, from 12.7 per cent to 11.7
per cent.
In September, the county had
7,021 person^ in the work force,
with 6.130 persons working and
891 persons without work. Those
figures dropped to 6,796, 6,003
and 793 in October.
A year ago the jobless rate in
the county was 6.0 per cent, w ith
6,555 persons in the work force,
6,162 persons working and 393
persons without employment
Rodriguez attributed the loss
to a small increase in activity in
both the agriculture and oil
industry locally.
The employment picture
doesn’t look good in the near
future, though, with Rodriguez
noting that the impact that an
expected increase in agriculture
workings will be negated by the
loss of Prophecy, one of the
largest employers in the county.
The business is expected to close
in December. Rodriguez said.
Dawson County continued to
reflect the worst employment
new's in the area, with the county
posting a 14 3 jobless rate in
October. The county had a job
force of 7.407 persons, with 6,356*’
persons working and 1,051
persons without employment.
The jobless rate represented a
large cut in the jobless rate for
the county, which registered a
15 6 jobless rate in September,
with 6.370 persons in a job force
of 7.550 persons working and
1.180 persons out-of-work.
A year ago in October, the
jobless rate for Dawson County-
stood at 6.6 per cent, with 6,540
persons working and 460 persons
without employment. There
were 7,(XX) persons in the job
force during the month.
Andrews County had a jobless
rate of 7.8 per cent in October,
with 9.404 persons in a job force
of 10,197 persons working and 793
without work
In September, the county had a
work force of 10,065 persons, with
9,198 persons working and 887
persoas without work, and a 8.8
jobless rate. A year ago, the
county had a jobless rate of 3.7
per cent, with 8,954 persons in a
job force of 9,298 persons
working and .344 persons out-of
work.
Yoakum also had good
employment news, with 5,489
persoas in the labor market, and
5,140 persons working, with 349
persons without labor
The rate was a rise from the 5.9
September figure, when 5,212
persons in a labor market of 5,536
persons were working and 324
persons were without labor.
A year ago in October, the
county had a jobless rate of 3.5
per cent, with 5,300 persons in the
labor market, 5,112 persons
working and 188 persons without
work.
Borden County had a jobless
rate of 12.2 per cent in October,
with 475 persons in the job force,
417 persons working and 58
persons without work.
Closing times
set by banks
Thanksgiving closing
schedules for the local
financial institutions were
incorrectly reported in
Sunday’s issue of The
Seminole Sentinel.
Andrews Savings & Loan
will be the only local financial
institution that will observe a
four-day holiday weekend,
closing on Thursday. Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
The other three local
institutions-Seminole Nation-
al Bank, First National Bank
and Lamesa Federal Savings
& Loan- will observe only a
one-day Thanksgiving
holiday, on Thursday, then
will re-open for business as
usual on Friday.
The Sentinel apoligizes for
presenting the incorrect
information and any
inconvenience it might have
caused the financial institu-
tions or their customers.
Transfer ok’d
Jury selected
Trial slated to start Monday
Jury selection in the murder
trial of Salvador Otero, charged
in the death of Darryl Glenn
Vandivere of Brownfield, was
completed Monday
The trial is scheduled to begin
Monday.
Vandivere’s body was
discovered near Cedar Lake in
northeastern Gaines County,
Nov. 25, 1985 by tw o hunters.
Vandivere had disappeared in
early November. 1984 and he,
along with his pickup, were the
objects of an area-wide search.
Vandivere’s pickup was
eventually found in Mexico and
two Mexican Nationals were
arrested at that time. Upon
questioning, one of the suspects
confessed to killing Vandivere
and dumping the body between
Brownfield and Levelland
A search at that time failed to
turn up anything and the search
was abandoned.
Otero will be defended by
attorney Floyd Holder of
Lubbock.
Angelo Central play each other
in a Class AAAAA area play-off
game It was a real treat, to say
the least.
Several thousand fans poured
into the Sun Bowl to watch the
game and we were among them
Play-off games are enjoyable,
but w hen you get to the class that
the bigger schools play, a lot of
times you can see something
special-from the fans, to the
bands, to the players, to the
settings. And all of these were
present last Saturday morning in
El Paso
Both teams had more players
suited up and on the sidelines
than most high schools have
enrolled in this area where
Seminole is used to playing.
There must have been over 100
players for each team and when
they hit the field for pre-game
warm-ups, it was something to
see
The bands were just as
overwhelming and San Angelo
Central even had two pep squads
all decked out in different
uniforms. And San Angelo fans
are in a league of their own
Those folks who traveled the 300-
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by oily council
The Seminole City council
agreed to a land transfer Monday
night at the council’s called
meeting.
The council declared Lot 19.
Locals set to
appear on TV
Two local women. Nita Gibson
and Freida Nichols, will appear
on the NBC “Today” program
Thanksgiving morning.
Gibson, chapter president and
Nichols, second vice president of
Women Involved in Farm
Economics (WIFE), will be
discussing agriculture problems.
Also appearing will be Naomi
Benson, WIFE national
president from Sterling, Colo.
The program is shown locally
from 7-9 a m on Channel 9 in
Odessa and Channel 22 in
Lubbock.
Block 15 of north Seminole not be
used as an alley, and the land will
revert to abuted land for the
owner C.L. Hill.
In other action at the gathering
the council:
Discussed employing local
resident Robby Blair as a part
time interim building official to
replace J.W. Allen when Allen
leaves to become a county
commissioner Jan 1 of next
year.
-Discussed the deregulation of
U S. Cable TV and the surveys
which the cable office is sending
out to local residents to
determine their preferences on
new channels to replace the
duplication of channels on the
ABC. NBC, and CBS networks in
Odessa and Lubbock
-Discussed the building
standards at the Seminole Motel
with Allen.
--Adopted the TCDP
resolutions for policy
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The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 26, 1986, newspaper, November 26, 1986; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825011/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.