Ranchland Farm News (Newspaper) - March 10, 1977, Colorado Springs, Colorado LOG RY PIKES PEAK REGIONAL LIBRARY BOX 1579 2 CO 80301 ews Serving the Pikes Peak plains region since 19O1 THURSDAY MARCH 10 1977 The Largest Rural Weekly In All Of Elbert County And East El Paso VOLUME 77 ISSUE 3 CALHAN AT STATE Not since have the Calhan Bulldogs represented the Black Forest League as Dis Champions at the Colora do State Tournament Class A Basketball Tournament in Den This year both the Calhan girls and boys teams will parti in the competition as district The girls will play next weekend de tails of the girls are on the sports The Calhan boys team will travel to Denver March to play of the Mountain at the Downtown Arena Beginning at The Norwood Ma vericks are the tallest Class A team to qualify for the With Junior Dus ty Rummell at 6 7 and the McKinney Carl and at 6 4 and 6 the Mavericks first five is topped off by senior Danny Sharer at 6 3 Shafer is the teams leading rebounder with a 21 per game average and a con sistant 16 points per Ju Dusty Rummell is also a scoring threat with 28 points per but with a lower rebound average of 17 per The Maverick Jim has led the Norwood crew to its first state birth and the first win past the district preliminaries in his first year of coaching at the While the Mavericks sport a 155 two of those losses came from A schools and three from AAA Debeque and both A defeated the Ma vericks earlier this Coach Bertrand also commented that only one of the players on the team had played varsity basket ball prior to mis The Calhan Bulldogs have hit a high point in their season after defeating an excellent Platte Canyon team the first game of the district tournament and avenging three losses to A jubilant Calhan team carries Coach Keith Ververs off the playing court after the Bulldogs surprise win over Ellicott at the District Ellicott league and tour play to take their place at the state The Platte Canyon Huskies tave the impression that they ad won the game before it even and the Bulldogs took advantage of the attitude by playing determined basket ball the entire After matching the and Doug Bode with 33 nearly basket forbasket in the first half of the the Bulldogs found themselves behind Then the Calhan crew went to work with a 30 point third quarter to lead the Huskies The Bulldogs held on to the despite Bodes superb shooting in the final and when the senior fouled out of the game with remain ing in me the Bulldogs had assured themselves of a The final score of 8880 was due to five Calhan players scoring in double fi Junior Zane Hammond paced the Bulldogs with his passing inside and 24 Todd Mitchell pulled down a number of rebounds and hit for 17 as did Dave Dyess who scored 10 Mike Speas played a tough in side game against the taller CONTINUED ON SPORTS PAGE SIMLA COUNCIL CALLS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING MEETING The Simla Town Council met Monday March with Mayor Alvin Councilmen Everett Church Jim Allan Leon Dean Mullenax and Herb Schus ter and Town Clerk Violet Greenstreet The Simla Town Board had been asked to consider region al A discussion was held and the board decided to give area persons the oppor to express their They have scheduled a public meeting for March 16th at at the Town Office in the Simla Municipal Build Anyone interested in ob a housing development in Simla is asked to attend the Judy Hartleroad was present at the start of the meeting as a representative of the Simla She stated the Jaycees would like to undertake a pro ject of building playground equipment for the town park and wanted approval of the town She stated the equip ment would be mainly for pre schoolers and would be built according to safety The board gave their unani mous The previously discussed or concerning open con of alcoholic beverages on the streets was It was voted to have the town at Bob draw up this Town Clerk Violet Green street had drawn up a resolu tion appropriating additional money to defray expenses in excess of amounts The ordinance may be found elsewhere in this issue of the The town had received a letter from the State Health Department stating the ty of having a certified opera tor for the sewer The issue was tabled until a later CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Water Problems Solved By Calhan Council Drought Relief Information Don Chairman of the Elbert County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee announced today that assistance is now available to area farmers and ranchers under the Emergency Conservation Measures ECM to control the erosion of farmland caused by high Eligible agriculture pro who request assistance will be reimbursed for up to 807o of the cost for approved emergency wind erosion control Farmers and ranchers need ing assistance are urged to con tact the Elbert County tural Stabilization and Conser vation Service Office at 80835 or call for information as to the type of wind erosion control that must be performed and the signup before perform ing any wind erosion control Practices performed must meet established in order to be eligible for cost sharing assistance through die Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Requests for assistance must be filed with the Elbert County Office by April Farmers should also check with the county office to determine if they have taken the necessary action to protect their eligibility for low yield payments under the 1977 Wheat and Feed Grain Disaster before performing emergency tillage operation to control wind erosion in fields seed to wheat or The March meeting of the Calhan Town Council was at tended by the new auditors and Scott to explain the situa tion of Calhans financial re cords and the water finance pro Jim Tillman and Mike the new auditors for the suggested that the council should make a new physical inventory on the towns The two informed that last years audit was declared a copout by the state This was only because of the former auditors irresponsibility of cor rect auditing ac cording to Tillman and The new inventory would be quite but necessary for compliance with new state laws and an assistance program may be available for the To correct and adjust the books for the the coun cil agreed to pay the new au extra money for the of Keith Hook met with the board and introduced John Con of the Betcher to the Scott inform ed the council that the appli cation for the new deep about 580 has not yet been but he was con it was due at any the problem of pay ing for the estimated 5558 thousand dollar well became the subject of discussion until nearly 11 Raising the water rates for users was a topic for a way to pay for the coun cil felt that another route could be a motion was made for Scott to further proceed with grant applications in that the town feels capable of bor rowing up to to be paid starting in 1981 with no change in current water because of this In other action by the Raymond Martin has been hired to fill the position formerly held by George Huff as assis tance maintenance Mar tin is from the topic of Calhans Housing Authorities water was Over 000 is owned by the organization for installation of pipe and wa ter The topic was tab led from any official action un til further contact can be made with those you Whoever gossips to will gossip of Spanish Proverb
