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COUNTY NEWS
Lockney Chooses Stock Show Champions
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KARAH HRABACEK
GRAND CHAMPION STEER
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WILL FOSTER
GRAND CHAMPION HEIFER
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KACIE YOUNG
GRAND CHAMPION SWINE
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BRADY RASCO
GRAND CHAMPION LAMB
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Lockney 4-H and FFA youth competed in
their local stock show, Saturday, January 5th, in the Unity
Center.
Earning the Grand Champion honors were:
Kacie Young with her 222 lb. Yorkshire swine; Will Foster
and his Champion Chi-Angus Heifer; Karah Hrabacek and her
1,150 lb. heavyweight breed champion Shorthorn steer; and
Brady Rasco and his 145 lb. breed champion Medium Wool
lamb.
Reserve Grand Champions were:
Garrison Marricle and his 234 lb. breed
champion Hampshire swine;
Justin Stoerner and his Angus
heifer;
J. Paul Hrabacek and his breed champion
Cross Breed steer; and
Eddie Lee Fortenberry and his 117 lb.
Medium Wool lamb.
In the Swine division, Garrett Mathis was
named Senior Showman and Krista Rasco was named Junior
Showman.
In the Steer division, Kacie Young, was
named Senior Showman and Will Foster was named Junior
Showman.
In the Lamb division, Brady Rasco was
named Senior Showman and his sister, Krista, was named
Junior Showman.
Eight heifers were shown at the local
show, as well as 8 steers, 32 pigs, and 6 lambs.
Names of Candidates
Finalized
Sign-Up Over for
Election
The final list of local and state
candidates is as follows:
March 12th Primary Races
There will be a race in the Democratic
Primary between incumbent County Judge Bill Hardin and Gary
Carthel.
The County Attorney position has also
drawn a contested race in the democratic primary. Lex
Herrington, of Floydada will face off challenger Kelly
Dunbar, of Lockney.
Herrington is currently serving as County
Attorney after being appointed to the position by the
Commissioner's Court.
County Treasurer Mary Shurbet will not
seek re-election. There will be a race for this office in
both the Republican and Democratic primary. Jeannie Sanchez,
and Elva Martinez, of Floydada, have both signed up as
Democrat candidates for the position of County Treasurer.
On the Republican side, Loretta Nutt, of
Lockney, and Christina Muse, of Floydada, have filed their
intentions to seek the County Treasurer Position.
The winner of the Democratic primary will
face off the winner of the Republican primary in the
November general election.
General Election November 5th
Tempie Francis, of Matador, has signed up
to run against incumbent District Judge Randy Hollums, of
Floydada.
Francis will run as a Republican
candidate and Hollums will run as a Democrat.
Commissioners Jon Jones (Pct. 4), and
Lennie Gilroy (Pct. 2) are seeking re-election on the
Republican ticket. Both commissioners have no Republican
challengers in the March primary.
After the primary, Commissioner Gilroy
will face off Democrat challenger Lindan Morris.
Commissioner Jones is not being
challenged in the primary race.
Kirt Wyrick, County J.P. Pct. #1&4,
will seek election on the Republican ticket.
Incumbent Michelle Araujo, County J.P. #2
& #3 has also filed her intentions to seek re-election
on the Democratic ticket. Neither Justice of the Peace has
drawn a primary opponent.
County Clerk Marilyn Holcomb, District
Clerk Barbara Edwards, have declared their intentions to
seek re-election on the Democratic ticket. They face no
opposition in the primary election.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry filed
for reelection to the United States House of
Representatives. Democrat Zane Reese will oppose Thornberry
in the general election.
Republican Betty Strickland, of
Plainview, will face off Democrat Pete Laney, of Hale
Center, in the State Representative race.
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OBITUARIES
MILDRED HILTON
Graveside services for Mildred Hilton, 104, were at 2
p.m. Monday, January 7, 2002 in Lockney Cemetery with Dr.
Harold Daniel officiating.
Funeral arrangements were by Moore-Rose-White Funeral
Home of Lockney.
Mrs. Hilton died Saturday, January 5, 2002, in
Plainview.
She was born December 10, 1897, in Adair, Iowa, to the
late John Henry Hartman and Alice Bragonier Hartman. She
attended schools in Princeton, Iowa, and moved to Lockney in
1915 and graduated from Lockney High School. She moved to
Friona in 1929 and back to Lockney in 1958.
She married Arthur Hilton on December 16, 1919, in
Lockney. He died December 5, 1955.
Mrs. Hilton was a homemaker and a member of First United
Methodist Church in Lockney.
Three brothers and two sisters are deceased.
Survivors include numerous nephews and nieces.
The family suggests memorials to First United Methodist
Church, 102 W. Poplar, Lockney, TX 79241.
JULIO V. IBARRA
Rosary services for Julio V. Ibarra, 49, of Floydada were
held at 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 4, 2002 at St. Mary
Magdalen Catholic Church in Floydada. Funeral mass was held
at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 5, 2002 at St. Mary Magdalen
Catholic Church with Father Phillip deFreitas, officiating.
Burial was in Floydada Cemetery under the direction of
Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada.
Mr. Ibarra died Wednesday, January 2, 2002 in
Lubbock.
He was born on May 24, 1952 in Cotulla to Mr. Juan E.
Ibarra and Mrs. San Juana Velasquez Ibarra. He moved to
Floydada from Cotulla in 1957 and attended schools in
Floydada. He married Julie Guzman on October 13, 1973 in
Floydada. He was an assembly line factory worker and a
member of St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church. He was preceded
in death by a sister, Sylvia Ibarra in 1968 and a brother,
Juan Ibarra in 1973.
He is survived by his wife, Julie Ibarra of Floydada; his
parents, Juan and San Juana Ibarra of Floydada; four
brothers, Jesse Ibarra and Joe Ibarra both of Floydada,
Frank Ibarra of Amarillo, and Tony Ibarra of Dalhart; three
sisters, Alex Reyes of Floydada, Irma Deleon of Amarillo,
and Janie Cardenas of Seguin.
JUANELL RUTH FARMER
Services for Juanell Ruth Farmer, 77, were held Tuesday,
January 8, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. in Holley Funeral Home Chapel
in Canyon with the Reverend Bill Austin, pastor of Lamont
Dr. Baptist Church of Amarillo, officiating. Burial followed
in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa. Funeral arrangements
were under the direction of Holley Funeral Home, Inc. of
Canyon.
She died January 4, 2002 at BSA Hospital in Amarillo.
She was born April 23, 1924 in Eastland to Cecil Lauglitz
and Zella Mae Miller. She was a secondary education teacher
and taught at Dougherty and Floydada. She was a member of
the Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, David Farmer of Knoxville, TN; a
daughter, Glenda Jenkins; a brother, Glenn Campbell of
Canyon; four grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the American Heart
Association.
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A
VIEW FROM THE LAMPLIGHTER
Another old year is gone, and a new one is upon us. In a
way the two kind of blur. The new merges with the old and
the old becomes new.
I forget now exactly where it is in the Bible, or who
said it, but somewhere in there is a passage saying "there
is nothing new under the sun." I'm not sure the author of
that Biblical comment is entirely right, but the longer we
live the more apropos it seems. So much of what we see, or
so much of what we read, merely places new faces and new
dates on old things that have happened before. In a way,
that is good.
Otherwise, the news of the day would be of little
importance.
To wit:
We see by the papers where Mr. Clinton, our former
President, has embarked upon a venture to reinvent his place
in history. He seeks, as it were, to create a "new"
identity. He has called together a bevy of former flacks,
urging them to do all they can to spread the word about all
the good things his Presidency accomplished. He does not
want history to remember him for his dalliance with Monica,
or those other girls. Nor does he want history to remember
him for renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to well-heeled
contributors, or selling pardons to various felons, or his
and Hillary's looting of the White House on their way out
the door.
Participants in the New York meeting say Mr. Clinton did
most of the talking, and everybody else did most of the
listening. That's natural. Mr. Clinton is a good talker, and
we can expect the meeting to bear fruit. Given a little
time, Mr. Clinton's friends in the media can work wonders,
in much the same way former President Lyndon Johnson's
friends and benefactors erased the image of vote fraud in
Jim Wells County that propelled Lyndon into a Senate seat
and eventually the Presidency, and all but erased the image
of a bumbling, unsure Commander-in-chief during the Vietnam
war. After years of meticulous spinning, Lyndon has emerged
as a civil rights champion. That's what one can do with a
massive "library" funded by taxpayers.
Still, we think Clinton will have a little more trouble
redefining himself than did Johnson, primarily because
Clinton was so arrogant about his own shortcomings, or what
many regarded as his shortcomings. He made no bones about
his shenanigans in the realm of "fundraising", or the manner
in which he escaped impeachment proceedings. He merely said
whatever happened didn't happen, or if it did and he got
caught, then everybody else did it too, so why blame him.
And besides all that, he would have had a more successful, a
more "defining" Presidency had he been fortunate enough to
face a real crisis, as did his successor, George W. Bush.
Too bad the World Trade Towers thing did not happen on his
watch. He has lamented that situation, in public, on at
least one occasion. His big thing, right off the bat after
his inauguration, was the gays in the military thing. One
can't go down in history as only a champion of queers.
There's got to be more. Clinton has publicly lamented the
fact that he did not get to prove his mettle as a leader
during wartime, but, after all, he had his chance. So what's
new?
And then there's that INS (Immigration and Naturalization
Service) matter. We noted, as the old year ended and the new
began, that the head of INS said his troops would not bother
the (estimated 7 million) illegal aliens in this country,
"unless they break the law." For crying out loud. They are
lawbreakers by definition. They broke the law to get here.
They break the laws ever day they are here. But maybe he was
talking about something else, like robbing banks or
convenience stores.
And also on the immigration front, we note that a rather
large proportion of the "security" folks manning security
stations at our nation's airports are not even citizens of
the United States. In still another short item, we note that
some 80,000 Nigerians now live in the city of Houston alone.
(Nigeria is one of those countries on the west coast of
Africa from whence many former slaves embarked, having been
captured and sold by their brethren.) Perhaps this explains
why it is so difficult to find a cab driver in Houston who
can speak English.
All of which poses a question. Why even have an INS?
Clearly, those officials in charge of the INS see no urgency
in upholding the laws they are sworn to uphold. So why spend
the money simply to furnish jobs for deserving
bureaucrats?
Speaking of old news with new faces, however, nothing
could surpass the current war on "evil." That war has been
around forever, but now it has an entirely new face in Osoma
bin Laden. Evil, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Some of us look upon bin Laden as the epitome of evil. Some,
no doubt, see it differently. That is one thing that will
make this particular war non-ending. And the New Year most
interesting.
Happy New Year everyone.
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