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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 2000
Page
7
Dale Dunlap Colingeworth County Extension Agent advises on lawn management from March to September. He explains not bagging grass clippings saves landfill space and outlines water needs by grass type, best watering times, and a mowing schedule. Clippings enrich soil with nutrients and composting improves garden soil.
Steven A. Carriker, Texas USDA Rural Development director, says federal funds support direct and guaranteed rural housing loans. In 1999, 1,517 Texans were funded to own or repair homes. Programs cover building, purchasing, repairing, and modernization with eligibility based on income, location in rural areas, and inability to obtain conventional loans. Call Amarillo Local Service Center at 806-468-8600 ext 102.
A collection of names including Russell Brewer Yakima Sunny C Ranch Oak Harbor Travis McGuire Jr Lindale A Z Hays G D Jones Edmond Schaded Sherry Hiett Keith Bruce Murrell Carmack Barbara Stanford Linda Murdock Christy Lucas with a Tolstoy quote on art as transmission of high human feelings.
Electric Camp for 4 H members ages 13 and up runs June 1923 near Cloudcroft New Mexico. Southwestern Public Service sponsors. registration $70 with transportation not included, due June 1 2000. A June 1 2000 workshop teaches record book completion. district July 20 Amarillo. state contest August College Station for senior winners. contact county extension office for participation.
A reflection on West Texas ranching shows new pickups costing under 2000 in the 1950s versus today’s burdens. While tractor prices soar from 1800 to 116000, commodity prices barely rise, squeezing producers. Calls for collective action to support Texas agriculture emerge as prices lag costs.
Childress County 4-H sponsors a three day horsemanship school in early June. The program runs June 1 2 and 3 with a total cost of 45 dollars or 20 dollars per day. Classes are limited to 25 and pre registration is advised. For details contact the Childress County Extension office at 940 937 2351 or Nancy Fuston at 940 937 2558.
Kyla Kay Hutchins was born Friday April 21 2000 at Presbyterian Hospital in Greenville weighing seven pounds six ounces and measuring twenty inches. Parents Eric and Misti Holton Hutchins reside in Bonham with grandparents Susan Holton and the late Craig Holton Penny and Keith Johnson also of Bonham and Tommy and Nancy Hutchins of Sherman. Great grandparents include J D Hutchins and Virginia Hutchins of Savoy Robert and Shirley Mills Ham and Ginger Holton of Childress. Great great grandparents are Francis and Edith Simmons of Childress.
The speaker narrates a memory of seeking work as a cowboy in Oklahoma Territory then becoming a barber apprentice and later a schoolteacher. He reveals the town’s irony that despite teaching, he could neither read nor write, a detail that ends the tale with a bombshell.
Connie Lockhart of Wellington serves as a Texas Agricultural Statistics Service enumerator, assisting field reps in Collingsworth and Childress counties. The brief survey requires 15 to 20 minutes and field staff carry badges and confidentiality forms per agency policy.
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