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County Fair opens next week in Muncy The 50th Anniversary of the Floyd County Fair will kick off at the Unity Center, in Muncy, August 14-16. Admission to the Fair is free, however there will be a $5.00 fee for admission to the Saturday night entertainment by Jimmy Burson and "Texas in the Swing". Records show that the Floyd County Fair had its beginnings somewhere around 1906. The Fair continued until 1929. In 1929 the Fair was held in the B.B. King Building on the north side of the square According to the Fair catalog, some of the entertainment events were a baseball game between the Fort Worth Cats and the Lockney independents, a carnival, a buffalo-riding contest, a water fight between Floydada and Lockney Fire Departments, and a fireworks display every night. Attendance was good in 1929 but it did not top the record 10,000 people on the closing day in 1928. Department Entry books open up for exhibitors, Wednesday afternoon, August 13, at 1:00 p.m. and will stay open until 7:00 p.m. Judging starts at 7:30 p.m. Department competitions include: crafts, art, photography, embroidery, knitting, crochet, quilting, sewing, latch hooking, and cross stitch. Judging will also take place for canned fruits and vegetables, breads, cakes, candies, pies, and cookies. A noted photojournalist, David J. Sams, will be the photography judge this year. He is a pulitzer prize nominee and a contributing photographer for Field and Stream and Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazines. There are divisions for youth and adults in the various departments. Agriculture Entry books open at 4:00 p.m. and close at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday. Thursday, August 14, the Flower Department Entry Books open at 9:00 a.m. and close at 12:00 p.m. Judging begins at 1:00 p.m. For more information on submitting your exhibit, contact: Charlene Brown, Gail DuBois, Regina Nelson, Elaine LaBaume, Angela Ragland, Donnell Gowens, James Hinton, or Aileen and Charles Williams. Children will be the guest of honors during Fridays Children's Day Friday night, August 15th, the Silent Auction begins at 6:00 p.m. and the Live Auction is at 7:00 p.m. All auction items are donated by local vendors. Saturday is a full day at the Fair. Activities kick off with a parade on Main Street in Lockney at 9:00 a.m. The fun moves to the Unity Center after the parade. Registration for the Tractor Pull competition begins at 11:00 a.m. and the contest starts at 1:00 p.m. Washer pitching is at 1:30 p.m. (at Pinner's Drive In) and the Trap Shoot (behind the Unity Center) and Pet Show (inside the Unity Center) are both at 2:00 p.m. There is no entry fee for the Pet Show and all types of pets are invited. Awards will be given for: smallest, most obedient, biggest, best of show, biggest eyes, cutest, most original, saddest face, biggest ears, best groomed, and many more. Jimmie Burson and "Texas in the Swing" entertainment begins at 8:00 p.m., on Saturday.
BLASTING THE HEAT -- Fireman Rodney Hunt aids his son, Kameron, and a friend in the Lockney Volunteer Fire Department's water polo game at Old Fashioned Saturday last weekend in downtown Lockney. Teams of helmet wearing children and firemen blasted a target suspended in the air and got a little wet in the process. The popular event helped children cool off as thtemperature climbed over 100 degrees.
OLD FASHIONED SATURDAY provided many fun events and treats for area children last weekend.
Citizens invited to take part in leadership program
The Lockney Economic Development Corporation, Opportunity Lockney, invites residents of Lockney and the surrounding area to participate in the initial class of Leadership Lockney, a program designed to enhance and develop Lockney's leaders of tomorrow. Based on the highly regarded Texas Rural Leadership Program, Leadership Lockney is designed to provide the knowledge base, practical skills, and personal contacts necessary to effectively lead in rural communities. The program will begin on Sept. 5 and will meet from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month through April, with graduation in late April or early May. Each day-long session will include lunch, and all materials are provided as part of the program fee. Cost of the program is $200, or $22 per month. Partial scholarships may be available from some Lockney businesses. "The Opportunity Lockney Board of Directors recognized the need to provide leadership training as an opportunity for those who would like to have more knowledge, skills, and personal contacts to benefit them in leading existing or new community organizations," said Dr. Bobby Hall, LEDC president. "Leadership Lockney is designed to do just that, by allowing participants to interact with government, civic, academic, economic development, business, and social leaders not only from the Panhandle and South Plains, but also from across the State. "This program will be very interactive as participants not only listen to presenters, but also have the opportunity to participate in discussions and projects. Each session will also include an on-site tour of key organizations in the area, ranging from businesses to health care organizations, governmental offices, educational facilities, and more. "A tremendous amount of work has gone into this program, and we are bringing in outstanding presenters from across the region and state to lead the sessions. I think those who have participated in leadership programs in other communities will recognize how powerful leadership training can be in enhancing all aspects of our community." Individual topics to be addressed during Leadership Lockney include communication, media, conducting effective meetings, motivation, city and county government, leadership styles and skills, problem solving and conflict management, strategic management, workforce development, volunteerism, economic development, grant funding, future trends, and developing allies for organizations and communities. Tours will include area media organizations, hospital/health care, city and county government, education, agriculture, and retail business. Leadership Lockney hopes to enroll 15-20 participants in its initial class. The program has garnered the support of the Lockney Independent School District, which is accepting applications for high school students wishing to enroll. Applications are available from the LISD offices, and partial scholarships for students are available. "Anyone interested in developing their leadership skills, discovering the many state resources available to help Lockney businesses and organizations, and making personal contacts with business and community leaders in West Texas should participate in Leadership Lockney," said Hall. Applications, plus an informational brochure and tentative schedule of events for each session, are available at City Bank in Lockney. For more information, call the Opportunity Lockney office at 652-8895, or contact Hall at 652-1127. Information is also available from Opportunity Lockney board members Brenda Johnson, Nell Glasscock, Phillip Glasson, Jeff Terrell, Abel Luna, or Jack Covington.
Obituaries OBE EARL DURHAM Graveside services were held for Obe Earl Durham, 86, of Waxahachie, Saturday July 19, 2003 in Slidell Cemetery. Lowell G. Jansen officiated. Arrangements were under the direction of Wayne Boze Funeral Home. Mr. Durham passed away Thursday at Hill Regional Hospital, Hillsboro. He was born in Slidell to Walter Page and Dora Elizabeth (Rhine)Durham. He was a longtime member and a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of the Oddfellows and a Shriner. He was a member of the Word of Life Fellowship Church in Chickashee, Ok. Mr. Durham worked for the railroad several years in Floyd County. He is survived by his wife, Fern Audrey Durham of Waxahachie, formerly of Chickashee, OK; two sons, Page Durham and his wife Kathy of Newark; and Joe Durham and his wife Vicki of Hillsboro; one daughter, Linda Jansen and her husband Lowell of Cleveland, OK; two sisters, Geneva Blackburn and Doris Bines both of Lubbock; nine grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson. He was preceded in death by his parents; one granddaughter, Tamara Durham, brothers, G.W. Durham and Roy Joe Durham, son, Arthur Lee Durham and one sister. Memorials may be made to Slidell Baptist Church, P.O. Box 104, Slidell, Texas 76267.
JAMES WAYNE FLAHERTY Funeral services for James Wayne Flaherty, 54, of Tulsa, Oklahoma were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 2003 at the First United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reverend Ed Bateman, Reverend Sue Bateman and Jay Wallace officiated. Interment was held in the Veterans Field of Honor, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Flaherty died July 20, 2003 in Tulsa. He was born on October 23, 1948 in Floydada. He was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Springdale Elementary, Cleveland Junior High and graduated from Central High School in 1966. He attended the University of Tulsa and received a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. Afterwards he entered the United States Air Force and served as an officer assigned to the Strategic Air Command. He returned to Tulsa in 1973 after serving in the Air Force and began his career with Williams Energy Company. He joined Serdrilco, Inc. in 1979 and later became president of the Tulsa-based oil and gas drilling company. He served on the board of directors of the Texas Association of Responsible Nonsubscribers. He was an active member of the Oaks Country Club, served on the board of directors of the Tulsa University Friends of Finance and a supporter of Oklahoma State University, where he earned a Masters Degree in finance. He was also a member of the Summit Club, Oklahoma Society of CPA's and First United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife, Marlene, of Tulsa; his mother, Irene Woods of Tulsa; a son, James Michael Flaherty of Garland; a brother, Ross and his wife, Sue, of Tulsa; a sister, Georgia Ann and her husband, Gary Best, of Tucson, Arizona; and nine nieces and nephews and seven great nieces and nephews.
JOSE Q. GARCIA Funeral Mass was held for Jose Querovin Garcia, 56, former Silverton area resident, Monday August 4, 2003 in St. John of the Fields Catholic Church. Burial was in Garden of Angels Cemetery in Abram by Flores Funeral Home of Mission. Mr. Garcia died Friday, August 1, 2003, in La Joya. He is survived by his wife; eight children; three brothers and seven sisters, including Mrs. Gonzalo (Julia) Gonzalez of Floydada; 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
WILLIAM F. MARTIN Memorial services for William Fred Martin, 76, of Lubbock, were held Wednesday August 6, 2003, at the First Baptist Church in Floydada. Reverend Anthony D. Sisemore officiated. Arrangements were under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada. He died Sunday, August 3, 2003 at the Garrison Geriatric Care Center in Lubbock. He was born on March 6, 1927 in Floydada to the late Mark H. Martin and Mattie Belle Slinker Martin. He married Katharine Hughette "Babe" Smart on December 21, 1949 in Floydada. She preceded him in death on February 18, 2002. He lived in Floydada until 1970 when he moved to South Africa. He worked there until 1993 and moved to Lubbock in 1994. When he lived in Floydada, he ran the International Harvester Dealership in Floydada and Lockney. In South Africa he designed and manufactured primary farming equipment. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Q.B.'s and First Baptist Church of Floydada. He was also preceded in death by a son, Dwane Mark Martin in 1983. Survivors include one daughter, Katharine "Kit" Reynolds of Johannesburg, South Africa; one granddaughter, Elizabeth Katharine "Libby" Reynolds of Cape Town, South Africa; one grandson, Lane Kenneth Reynolds and wife, Elizabeth Ann, of Val, South Africa and one great-grandson, Drew Kenneth Reynolds. The family suggests memorials to the Dwane Mark Martin Scholarship c/o First National Bank, P.O. Box 550, Floydada, Texas 79235.
By The Way | by Alice Gilroy
A View From The Lamplighter | by Ken Towery
Senate Democrats seem determined to prove they are smarter than House Democrats. House of Representatives Democrats fled to Ardmore Oklahoma so they wouldn't have to belly up to the bar and do their duty. Our Senate Democrats, on the other hand, headed for Albuquerque, New Mexico. The climate is much better in Albuquerque, we're told, than either Ardmore or Austin.
We have friends in Albuquerque, they having gone there from Odessa, but they paid their own way. And they didn't flee from responsibility in the process. In fact, they went there because a sense of responsibility took them there. That sense of responsibility is absent among Texas Democratic legislative members at the moment.
Still, a sense of responsibility is no more prevalent among Texas editorial board rooms than among Senate or House Democrats. The flight of the Democratic bumblebees generates little or no criticism among Texas newspaper editorialists. The Austin American-Statesman is a good example. The paper's editorial writers can do nothing but rave about the courage of the absent legislators. Nor can the paper, for that matter, ever admit that it came into existence as the mouthpiece for a post-civil war Democratic Party. Over the years the party's zigs and zags (are you old enough to remember, gentle reader, when some Democratic Party organizations held so-called Jay Bird Primaries in which negros were not allowed to vote?) were matched by the newspaper's editorial zigs and zags. In that regard, nothing has changed. It still finds favor with any position that will inure to the benefit of the Democratic party, no matter what that position might be at any given moment.
We still think our idea (of stripping legislators of their office when they refuse to obey their oath and represent their constituents) is a good idea. Obviously there will be no such constitutional amendment passed by a legislature that can't even muster a quorum (a proposed constitutional amendment requires 100 votes in the House, for instance, before voters get a crack at it)
Somebody once said that in war, truth is usually the first casualty. Politics is a kind of war, fought with other weapons, but like real war, truth also takes a beating. Much editorial comment has centered, of late, on what is called Senate "tradition" that allows Senators to park a bill at the top of each calendar, and then require a 2/3 majority vote to "suspend the rules" in order to take up other proposed legislation. The result, of course, is to allow a minority of Senators to determine the flow of legislation. Obviously, Senate Democrats don't want that changed. Being in the minority, it becomes very important that "tradition" be observed. Except. There's always the "exception."
Our memory of the legislature goes all the way back to the Speakership of some guy named John Lindsey in the 1950's, with a Lieutenant Governor named Ben Ramsey, in whose tenure a guy named George Parkhouse of Dallas was the closest thing to a Republican, and Parkhouse was no Republican. There has never been a 2/3 "tradition" of near unanimity among members of the Senate on redistricting matters (except when the body had no Republican members), as long as I can remember. That was certainly not the case during the time when Bill Hobby, or Ben Barnes, or Bob Bullock, sat in the Lieutenant Governor's chair. None of those Lieutenant Governors wanted to see more Republicans in the Texas Senate, or the U.S. Congress. So they did what they could to see that it didn't happen, including the gerrymandering of the state's Congressional Districts to favor Democratic chances. And they made certain that Democratic will prevailed simply by ignoring the so-called "tradition" in order that a minority of Senators could not block action.
It would be nice, but is obviously not required, for editorial writers to at least mention the truth, if only in passing.
Quite frankly, we have always thought the 2/3 rule in the Senate was nothing but a dodge, a cop-out, a fraudulent excuse for members who did not want to do their duty until sufficient money was amassed in appropriate places to make a vote worthwhile. Why the rule should be afforded some sort of sacred status by Texas daily editorial writers is beyond us. Why they should also reward cowardice with editorial praise is beyond us.
There are honest men and women in the Senate, but there are also those who think much better with greased palms. In fact, there are Senators who became Senators for no reason other than money. Both Senators and House members make much of the fact that they don't make much…salary, that is. But they have seen to it that the salary is only a part, a very small part, of their total take home pay. There's the overly lucrative retirement account, in which their legislative retirement income is based not upon their own salary, but upon the excessively generous salary of District Judges. (Now the salary of District Judges is upward of $130,000 per year) There's the per diem pay, over and above the salary, there's the pay received from "investigating" this or that problem. All in all, one can understand why so many State legislators spend so much money to acquire a position that theoretically pays so little.
And then, when the mood strikes, some head off to Ardmore Oklahoma, or Albuquerque, New Mexico, and take offense when people expect them to stay hitched and do their job.
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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**3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOME on 9.2 acres for sale. 5 miles south of Silverton, at intersection of highways 207 and 145. Brick veneer, AC/H, fireplace, carpet, lots of cabinets, countertops, 2 separate ovens, double sink, 2,317 sq. ft. with 594 sq. ft attached garage. Was $85,000.00. REDUCED TO $79,000.00. **CALL BARKER REALTY - 806-652-2642 or John Simpson Real Estate 995-4873 or Warren Mitchell at 983-2151.
NOW ENROLLING FOR PIANO, guitar, organ, piano accordion and keyboard lessons. Record Music Shop, 806-652-2364.
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Floyd County, pursuant to a tax foreclosure sale, is offering for sale the following property in the City of Lockney: All of Lots No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Block 35 and Lots 1 and 2 in Block G of the N.B. Davis Survey located in the City of Lockney, Floyd County, Texas also known as the Webster Service and Supply, Inc. property. Any offers should be submitted to: William D. Hardin, County Judge, Courthouse Room 105, Floydada, Texas 79235.
CEMENT WORK? Sidewalks, patios, driveways, curbing. Odd jobs around home or farm. Gary Bennett. Call or leave message. 983-5120.
LARRY OGDEN AUCTIONEERING Estates, Farm, Ranch, Business, Liquidations, State Licensed and Bonded. (806) 983-5808. TX. #9240.
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