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Lockney Chamber Honors Citizens
LOCKNEY CITIZENS HONORED--(L-R) Bobby Hall and Preston Belt were honored at the Lockney Chamber of Commerce Banquet, March 6. Hall was named the Citizen of the Year and Belt was named Fireman of the Year. Lockney citizens honored Bobby Hall and Preston Belt at the Chamber of Commerce Banquet, March 6. Martin Stoerner, last year's recipient of the Citizen of the Year award, presented Bobby Hall with the same honors this year. "This town is blessed with a spirit for volunteerism that is matched nowhere else," said Stoerner. "Imagine if a city the size of New York were to have the volunteers per capita that we do, there would be no end to the possibilities." Stoerner told the audience that Hall has served his church as both a "faithful servant and as a council member." "Hall has led the way in youth sports as a coach and driving force behind Little Dribbler's Basketball, Tiger League Football, and Little League Baseball," said Stoerner. "He constantly views Lockney as the 'little town that could', and tries to prove it to the world through his works," continued Stoerner. "His presidency of the Lockney Chamber of Commerce left a legacy of efficiency and ambition that has continued today. His foresight, knowledge, and shear determination brought into being the Lockney Economic Development Corporation, and the Lockney Leadership Program. Through his class projects, Hall has focused on several needs for this community." Joe Marks, last year's recipient of "Fireman of the Year" presented Preston Belt with the same honors. Belt has been a volunteer fireman for 4 years. He is the county's Emergency Management Coordinator and a salesman for Debruce Ag Service. Entertainment for the evening was provided in songs by Alexis Hall and Sherry Fogerson's "tumblers". New directors appointed to the Chamber Board are: Ron Hall, Chad Stapp, Trish Davis, Larry Mullins, and Russell Wilson. Returning Directors are: Preston Belt, Sharon Hunt, Neely Landrum, Clint Bigham, Boyd Jackson, Henry Segovia, and Matt Williams. Officers and Directors of the Chamber are: Abel Luna, president; Kerry Gardner, vice president; Lori Caballero, secretary; Kelly Prayor, treasurer; and J.D. Copeland, historian. Retiring directors are Lindan Morris and Rosie Rendon. Junior Directors are: Cody Gardner, Amanda Hancock, Alissa Poindexter, Brandon Gilroy, Britta McDonald, Sarah Martinez, Zane Montandon, Mike O'Connell, James Orr, Kimberly Gatlin, Amanda Garza, and Jamie Austin. Longtime LISD Principal to Retire at End of School Year
INCOMING AND OUTGOING--Dean Thompson (left) will be taking over the reigns as principal of Lockney High School at the end of the 2004 school year after the retirement of James Poole (right). Poole has been with LISD since 1972 and has been the High School principal since 1978. Thompson is currently the assistant principal at Tulia High School.
With the close of the 2004 school year Lockney ISD will lose two very familiar faces around its campuses. High School Principal James Poole will retire after 32 years with LISD, and his wife, Shiela, will also retire after 26 years of teaching at Lockney Elementary. The Pooles say they plan to moved to Wichita Falls and enjoy playing with their grandchildren. James Poole is a High School graduate of Ferriday High School in Ferriday, Louisiana. In 1964 James and Shiela married, and in 1965 he graduated from Southwestern State in Weatherford, Oklahoma with a major in Education. His first job was in Paducah as a coach and a social studies teacher. After 3 years he went to work in Mountain View, Oklahoma as a coach and social studies teacher. Two years later, in 1972, Poole came to work for Lockney ISD. For three years he coached football, basketball, and track, and taught social studies and driver's education. Then for two years he taught Vocational Adjustment Coordination (Special Education). In 1977-78 Poole served as the Junior High Principal and in 1978 he became the High School Principal. Shiela Poole started her teaching career in Floydada Elementary in 1972 and then moved to Lockney Elementary in 1978. She started teaching first grade and then moved to the 3rd grade. James says what stands out in his years of education is the everyday surprises you get from kids. "Every day is different," said Poole. "My biggest thrill has always been to see kids advance to the state level in whatever field they are involved in--whether it is academics or athletics. You feel like you are part of it with them." Poole says although education has changed the kids haven't changed. "The kids just go through cycles," said Poole. "I've gone from seeing long hair and short skirts, and then back to long hair and short skirts. "Kids have cycles of wanting to do things and then not wanting to do things--but that is the way it is with everybody. "Sometimes we, as adults, don't even know what to do but we expect kids to know. "Kids are different all the time which is one of the reasons it is always a challenge working with them." Poole says he plans on enjoying grandchildren, fishing, and playing golf while he is retired. "I'm going to put all my ties at the back of the closet or out on my fence and let somebody else pick them up. I'm going to do away with my watch and alarm clock." And speaking of clocks-Poole laughs about the saying around Lockney High School of, "You have regular time and then you have Poole time!" The saying is known by all students and faculty and simply means that all high school clocks are set at 5 minutes earlier than other clocks. "Poole time is going to leave," laughs James. "I'm going to mess up the clocks when I leave. The new principal will have his own time. GOING TO STATE
KIM VAN CLEVE Kim placed 3rd in her weight class at the Region I Powerlifting Meet last Saturday in Kermit. She qualified to lift at the Texas High School Women's Powerlifting Association State Meet in Killeen on March 19. This was her 2nd trip to the Regional Meet. Kim is the daughter of Kellie Van Cleve.
FHS 2004 GOLD KEY ART WINNERS--FHS Art Scholastic Gold Key winners are: (l-r) Noe De Los Santos and Gerardo Mata. Their drawings were forwarded to New York City for the national competition.
FHS BPA TEAM WINS FIRST AT STATE COMPETITION--The FHS Parliamentary Procedure Team won 1st Place at State Competition last week. The team consists of (back, l-r) Skyler Cornelius, Spencer Schacht, Trey Helms, Meghan Graham, Jeremy Lloyd; (front, l-r) Kristan Lackey (who won 3rd in desktop publishing), Eason Campbell, and Lauren Powell. Meghan Graham won 3rd in Prepared Speaking and was elected to become the State Secretary. Skyler Cornelius won 8th in Digital Media Production and April Arevalo (not pictured) competed in interview skills. The Parliamentary Procedure Team, Meghan and Kristan, will represent the State of Texas at the National Leadership Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio April 28-May 2.
(Editor's Note: This the 3rd part of Roy Smith's Pioneer Remembrance first published in The Hesperian-Beacon's 100 Year Centennial Edition, May 24, 1990. We heard from Mr. Smith's wife, Sunshine, last week. She sent us a book that has been published by Roy and Sunshine Smith, called "As I Remember It". Sunshine said after Roy's stroke he did not write anymore, but Sunshine took it upon herself to sit and write the stories as Roy told them. Those stories, and some old family photos, have been compiled into this book. Sunshine gave us permission to use any stories from her book in future editions of the paper, and I'm sure we will. I don't know if copies of the book can be found anywhere except through her. Sunshine lives in Plainview and can be written at 3602 W. 10th, Plainview, TX. 79072) PART 3 By Roy Smith Looking For New Land About this time there was much talk among the older settlers in the community migrating west where land was cheaper, sometime four or five acres for one. Also there was still a small amount of land in West Texas to be filed on and quite a lot in New Mexico. Dad was finally persuaded to go along with three of our neighbors although he told them he wasn't ready to make a move, but might consider it later. The other three were really anxious to move on west. They took two wagons, one covered with boxes and tarp for them and the bedding clothes, etc. The other wagon carried feed for the two teams, a barrel for water for their own uses and some for the teams in case of emergency. They expected to be gone at least two weeks and sure enough it was longer than that. They first went to Bovina then Friona and on into New Mexico, then on to Portales and the sandy country (wherever that is). There was a lot of land to be filed on there. It was almost unbelievably hot in the daytime, but nights were cool. One day about noon one of the men got a call from nature and informed the others. They told him it was so hot there, and asked him to wait until they could get to what looked like an abandoned shack just ahead. He agreed that there could be a little shade on the north side of the shack so they drove on to it. He ran to the shack and as soon as he was comfortably sitting, the door to the shack opened and a lady with her broom pounced on him, ferociously flogging with all her might. Of course he jumped up trying to run, but tripped up by his overalls around his ankles, he fell flat on his face with her still flogging him with the broom. She stopped as abruptly as she started and went back inside and shut the door without saying a word. The men in the wagon laughed until they hurt but he resented it and when they noticed he was mad they didn't mention it again on the rest of the trip. The Millers and Woltmans later bought land near Bovina, sold their places here and moved there. A few years later, Mr. J.A. Jamerson, the man dad got the red pigs from, made a tour in a covered wagon to New Mexico, west of Clovis to the St. Vrain area. While searching the country for a desirable location he stopped at a country store some twenty miles from St. Vrain. While he was looking for land he was also interested in settling in a community where there was a church of his belief, Primitive Baptist, as most all of them called themselves, "Hard Shell Baptists." He asked the man at the store if there any Hard Shell Baptist in the area and was told, "Well, we buy all kind of wild animal hides but I don't recall ever buying any Hard Shell Baptist hides." Mr. Jamerson would tell this and get the biggest kick from it. He later sold out and moved to near St. Vrain. Running The Lakeview Store Several years later we bought the Lakeview Store which we called a general store as we carried some hardware, auto parts, dry goods, mostly men's work clothes, overalls, shirts, socks, straw hats, etc. One day Mrs. R.B. Smith (Barbara) stopped to buy gas, for the car and when she came to pay for it, she noticed a big bunch of straw hats, I was going to get 'Rat' one when we got to Floydada, but I will just get one here." Well, "Rat" was sitting down on the flat bed of a two wheel trailer she was pulling behind the car. I asked Barbara to ask "Rat" to come in and pick out one and try it on for size. She said, "No, he can't come in because he has on the work clothes he has worked in for two weeks herding the sheep. He hasn't had a bath and he is in really bad shape." I asked what size he wore and she said, "I do not know, he has been working bare headed the two weeks he has worked for us and he didn't have a hat or cap". She went out and asked "Rat" what size he wore and he did not know so we decided to arrive at a size by conforming a string to his head and then conforming it to the inside of a hat. Barbara said, "We can't afford to try a hat on him for size, as if the first one did not fit you could never sell it to anyone else." After measuring several hats we thought we had one that would fit him, and carried it out to the trailer and put it on his head. Well, I don't know how we missed his size so much but that hat didn't touch his head until it hit the crown and the brim was down on his shoulders. Barbara and I both could not keep from laughing. I wanted to try another one on for size but she said no, still saying we could not sell it to anyone else. I went back to get a smaller one anyway but Barbara cranked up and drove away as I was coming out with a smaller size. The ground around the store and the road was real rough as it had been raining and had not been dragged. As the trailer had no springs on it, "Rat" was bouncing at least a foot high and I know he had a hard time holding onto the trailer with one hand and holding the hat on his head and the other one. I laughed til they were out of sight but I am sure "Rat" did not see anything funny. Speaking of the Lakeview Store, I am sure there are not many people who remember the blue gas. White was the premium grade. One little incident. One day a model T-Ford drove up to the pump containing the white gas. I knew I had never seen him before. I went out and asked if he needed some gas. He was looking up at the bowl and asked, "What is your gas worth?" I said, "This is the white gas and it is eleven cents." He said, "the white gas is eleven cents?" I said, "Yes, that is right." He then asked, "Well, do you have any other kind of gas?" I informed him that the other pump contained the blue gas. He said, "And the other pump has blue gas?" I said, "Yes sir, that is right." He then asked what the blue gas was worth. I said, "The blue gas is nine cents." He then said, "And the blue gas is nine cents?" I said, "Yes sir, that is right." He then said, "Well, do you have any bluer than that?" We didn't have the blue gas but a year or so when Continental came out with bronze colored gas which was their premium grade and white replaced the blue gas for second grade. (Next week: Building water tanks and 54 flats)
Obituaries EDDITH J. COLTHARP Funeral services for Eddith Jewell Coltharp, 93, of Lubbock will be held at 2:00 p.m. March 12, 2004 in the Caudle-Rutledge Chapel in Lindale with retired Col. Bruce Coltharp officiating. Burial will follow in the New Harmony Community Cemetery under the direction of Rix Funeral Home of Lubbock. Mrs. Coltharp died Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at her Carillon residence. She was born on July 19, 1910 in Floydada to the late W.O. and Eugenia Murray. She married A. W. Coltharp in 1956 in Floydada and he preceded her in death on March 4, 1994. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Tyler. Survivors include a daughter, Melba Smalley Tate and husband, Kenneth of Lockney; two sons, Joe Smalley of Lubbock and Larry Coltharp and wife, Betsy of Irving; a sister, Nola Turner of Siloam Springs, Arkansas; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials to the First Baptist Church Music Department, 401 S. Main, Floydada, Texas 79235 or to the Hide-a-way Lake Community Church, 1500 Lake Park Circle, Lindale, Texas 75771. BRYAN E. SMITH Funeral services for Bryan E. Smith, 79, of Plainview were held Monday, March 8, 2004 at the Main Street Church of Christ in Lockney. Russell Harris officiated and J.W. Hamby assisted. Burial was in the Lockney Cemetery under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Lockney. Mr. Smith departed this life on March 5, 2004 at Covenant Hospital Plainview. He was born on April 23, 1924 in Sterley to Robert W. and Annie Lee Reeves Smith. He graduated from Lockney High School in 1942 and attended Texas Tech. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marines. He married Dorothy Dallas on March 28, 1953 in Tulia. He was a Lockney resident until he moved to Plainview in 1991. Farming was his life and he was a third generation Floyd County farmer. Mr. Smith was on the Board of Directors for the Floyd County Farm Bureau and Sterley Gin. He was a member of the Lion's Club, Rotary Club, Garland Street Church of Christ in Plainview and had been a deacon at Main Street Church of Christ in Lockney for many years until he moved to Plainview. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Robert Lee Smith. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Smith of Plainview; one son, Dan Smith and wife Reeda Cay of Lockney; one daughter; Marilyn White and husband Charles of Lynnfield, Massachusetts; one brother, Howard Smith of Lubbock; four grandchildren, Tikka Smith of Dallas, Michelle Smith of Lubbock, Rebekah White and Abigail White both of Lynnfield, Massachusetts; and numerous nieces and nephews. The family suggests memorials to a favorite charity.
By The Way | by Alice Gilroy
A View From The Lamplighter | by Ken Towery
We've lost another friend, one with whom we shared an awful lot over the years. Kyle Thompson passed away Friday afternoon, just as some of us were trying to adjust to the passing of Waggoner Carr, the Lubbockite who went on to become Speaker of the House and Attorney General of Texas during the 50's and 60's. Kyle never achieved political heights afforded Carr, but in terms of how men measure men he could not have risen higher. He had a long life, during which he contributed mightily to his fellows on this earth. He entered the Texas National Guard at an age (16) when some of us were heading for the old Civilian Conservation Corps, or "CCC" as it was known in those days. By the time World War II broke out, he had arrived at the ripe old age of 18, and, along with a Battalion of the 36th Division, was on his way to the Far East, destined to help those of us who made up what passed for American forces already in the region. On the high seas when the war started, Kyle was…oh, shall we say "diverted" and ended up in Java, then ruled by the Dutch. The Dutch caved after a few days, and Kyle's small group became prisoners of the Japanese, helping build the infamous "Death Railway" in the jungles of Burma. For reasons known only to the Lord God Almighty, he survived. Back in America Kyle, perhaps because of his experiences, became somewhat different from many in his chosen profession. He, after a career that included stints as Austin Bureau Chief for United Press International, editorial writer for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, and other reporting assignments, worked for several political conservatives, including Republican Senator John Tower, and Democrat (when he was a Democrat) Texas Gov. John Connally. Wherever he happened to be, friends of liberty and decency knew they had a champion. He never, to our knowledge, shied away from doing what he thought was right, and he never had unkind words to say about those with whom he differed. Those of you who like to read may find Kyle's book "A Thousand Cups of Rice", most interesting. It recounts his experience in helping build the railway, (under duress, one might say), and reveals some of that faith that sustained him during some dark days. I really don't know where you would find a copy, but if you can, I think it would be well worth your time. Kyle will be missed by those who knew him, and that includes an awful lot of people.
The Hesperian-Beacon invites you to read a collection of thoughts and memories by Ken Towery. The "Reflections of Ken Towery" can be found on this website by clicking here.
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